Mary Ann Strandell Current Exhibitions: 2021

Wednesday, October 27, 2021

Bemis Center for Contemporary Art

Exhibition

Benefit Art Auction Exhibition

October 15, 2021–October 29, 2021

Benefit Art Auction, 5:30–9:15 PM
Xiu Xiu | Live @ LOW END, Doors 9:30 PM

Date: Fri, Oct 29, 2021

Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts

724 S. 12th Street
Omaha, NE 68102
402.341.7130
info@bemiscenter.org


Mary Ann Srandell, Porcelain Flowers Yellow U/I, Ink /3D, 28x24"

Mary Ann Strandell, Transit Plain Towers, 34x47", U/I, Ink /3D Lenticular

Join us in celebrating Bemis Center’s 40th birthday at Omaha’s largest and most beloved celebration of contemporary art! More than 200 local, regional, and national artists participate in the Auction, choosing between 50-100% commission on the sale of their works. All other proceeds are reinvested into Bemis Center’s three core programs—Residency, Exhibitions, and Public Programs—that infuse our region with new art and ideas year-round through a regular schedule of free programming.

This year, with an expanded footprint to include outside food and beverage service, mobile bidding, and live music at LOW END, Bemis Center's music venue, we aim to maintain social distancing and bring our community together for a celebration that raises critical resources for Bemis and participating artists.

COVID Safety Policy

To ensure Bemis Center is providing a safe environment for everyone, the following policies are in place at the Benefit Art Auction and Concert:

Proof of COVID-19 vaccination or proof of a negative COVID-19 test is required for all visitors 12 and over. Visitors who are unable to be or who are not fully vaccinated must show proof of a negative COVID-19 test.

A face covering is required for all visitors, ages 2–11 when indoors. Face coverings are encouraged for attendees 12 and over when not eating or drinking indoors.

MARY ANN STRANDELL' s work examines the intersection of nature and technology in our participation in society. Through combining a gamut of places as content markers- ancient canyons in the SW to urban cities and historic museums, these subjects are explored with drawing, painting, and 3D lenticular media. Works start as singular paintings and evolve into lenticular's complex software-based optical fabrications. She has exhibited internationally at venues including De Weiger Museum, Netherlands: Panorama Art, Cologne, DE: FiAC, Paris; St. Louis Art Museum; Michael Steinberg Fine Art, NYC ; Transfer Downloads, Minnesota Street Projects, San Francisco; Her 2021 commissions include site-specific lenticular for UBER Headquarters, San Francisco; and Children's Mercy Research Institute, KC, MO. Some awards include a NEA in Painting, Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, The Public Artwork Fund/NEA Midwest. Her recent acquisitions are the APS Museum, Shanghai; Albrecht-Kemper Museum, St. Joseph, MO.

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Thursday, October 7, 2021

Byrdcliffe Woodstock - Kleinert James Gallery

Artists Draw Their Studio Exhibition

Curated by Michelle Weinberg

Opening Reception: SAT 10/9 Noon- 5:00pm

October 9-November 21, 2021

Byrdcliffe Woodstock - Kleinert James Gallery

36 Tinker Street

Woodstock, NY

Hours: FRI- SUN 12:00 - 5:00pm

Mary Ann Strandell, Breezeway View

About Mary Ann Strandell, Breezeway View. At the beginning of lockdown 2020, my husband and I placed all our living and dining room furniture in storage to expand the studio use of our home. My “Breezeway View” is metaphor of that shift. It combines layers of small ink drawings (construction sites) for my commissioned projects, in between one of my painting-lenticulars of the porcelain flower series. The overall drawing is from my current large scale installation at Artport Kingston, which fixates on a domestic view of comfort, the ‘hygge’ of home. The retro TV screen reflects back our central relationship to screen-time amplified during the pandemic lockdown, and our curious flow back into society.

Exhibiting Artists:

Kelli Rae Adams, Sally Apfelbaum, Jenny Brillhart, Francis Cape,

Karlos Carcamo, Dimitry Chamy, Amanda Church, Hallie Cohen,

Karen Combs, Elisabeth Condon, Chris Costan, Anne Devine,

Nereida Garcia Ferraz, Janet Goleas, Theresa Hackett, Kylie Heidenheimer,

Carter Hodgkin, Jayne Holsinger, Sharon Horvath, Christine Hughes,

Will Hutnick, Bethanie Irons, Julia Jacquette, Leslie Kerby, Kirstin Lamb,

Nancy Lorenz, Judy Mannarino, Margo Margolis, Maureen McQuillan,

Kathleen McShane, Portia Munson, Anne Muntges, Laura Newman,

Anne Peabody, Liza Phillips, Nora Riggs, Leslie Roberts, Lydia Rubio,

Donna Ruff, Bonnie Rychlak, Kristen Schiele, Polly Shindler, Jeanne Silverthorne,

Karen Snouffer, Sara Stites, Mary Ann Strandell, Natasha Sweeten,

Christina Tenaglia, Sarah Trigg, Rachel Urkowitz, Josette Urso, Kristiina Uusitalo,

Michelle Weinberg, Etty Yaniv, Amy Yoes.

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Sotheby's New York

BOUNDLESS SPACE EXHIBITION and AUCTION

Sotheby’s NYC

1334 York Ave

New York, NY 10021

September 30 to October 8, 2021

Saturday, October 2, 2021: Boundless Space Opening Day at Sotheby’s NYC
Sunday, October 3, 2021: Boundless Space Community Day at Sotheby’s NYC
October 4-7, 2021: Gallery talks and public events at Sotheby’s NYC and live streamed here

Mary Ann Strandell, "Transit Trail, Serape, Bird, Construction

Strandell writes, "This lenticular work, "Transit Trail Serape, Bird, Construction" is an algorithmic landscape layered with imagery painted at the Rio Borge, and the Southwestern Desert. It is also interspersed with song birds, waterfalls and NYC construction sites. The linear striations are inspired by serape blankets, and mapping systems. It is evocative of the dream-time spaces we collectively integrate into our amplified networks. Aspects of the work were hand-painted: birds, construction drawings, the sumi ink tree, and the very background paintings were all executed at desert sites in Nevada and New Mexico. Although my studio is in NYC, I travel a few times a year to southwest to camp and paint and organize gatherings with other intrepid artists. The areas where ancient petroglyphs can still be found hold high interest to locate and to stay in such areas for my outdoor studio camps. Thus, my work combines a complex relationship between experiences of trekking, on-site painting, studio painting and a digital conversation that involves optics and moving images."

Burning Man Project and Sotheby’s are collaborating to produce
Boundless Space: The Possibilities of Burning Man,
a charitable online auction that will offer up for sale an
eclectic, genre-defying selection of artworks, collectibles,
mutant vehicles, NFTs, and experiences. Funds raised by
Boundless Space will support participating artists, help ensure
the not-for-profit’s long-term survival, and fund their Arts
and Civic Engagement programs.

OMG Art Fair

with ArtPort Kingston

September 30 - October 3rd

323 Wall Street

Kingston, NY 12401

I’m thrilled Artport Kingston is presenting an array of my

3D Lenticular works at the new OMG Fair, Kingston, NY.

Mary Ann Strandell, "Porcelain Flowers w Wave"


Mary Ann Strandell, "Bluebirds with Lights"


Mary Ann Strandell, "Porcelain Flowers Batch"

Join us for the first-ever contemporary art fair in the Hudson Valley! The four-day art fair at the Wall Street Music Hall in historic uptown Kingston, NY will be welcoming visitors from September 30 to October 3, 2021.

The fair will feature a curated selection of fine art galleries, who represent artists working in photography, painting, sculpture, mixed media, video, and digital. Between 15 and 20 galleries and artists are expected to exhibit at OMG. Galleries include the Jane Lombard Gallery, Jim Kempner Fine Art, Field Projects, One Mile Gallery, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, 11 Jane Street, Jane Deering Gallery, High Noon Gallery, Theodore Art, BK Projects, Ver Sacrum Fine Art, Cade Tompkins Projects, Soapbox Arts and Alabama artist collective Gee’s Bend Quilters. Artists Samantha French, Aaron Hauck, Kyle Meyer, Mike King, artist/filmmaker Guy Maddin will be represented at OMG, as well.

Artworks will be available for sale, including work from both established and emerging artists.

Link to OMG Faire

Friday, August 27, 2021

UPSTATE ART WEEKEND

“Breeze Way” Installation, August 2021
Mary Ann Strandell
ArtPort Kingston, NY
UPSTATE WEEKEND FAIR
Curated by Laurie De Chiara

August 27- March 2022

This new installation titled “Breeze Way”combines ink and acrylic drawing in situ with a series of oil paintings and 3D Lenticular media. The overall drawing is a classic 60s interior, a very retro living room with the TV screen centrally placed. The overall subject is one of comfort, a living space, not exotic but accessible. It’s gracious and welcoming and perhaps serves as a backdrop to our societal relationship to states of quarantine, and a place we demarcate as in between -with screen-time and dream-time.

The angles within the room, and the picture plane greatly reference modernist architectural feats, such as Mies“ Barcelona pavilion which was considered an, “ideal zone of tranquility”. Multiple artworks reference screen-time as worlds within worlds- a time capsule. In the installation the lenticular works are comprised of historic architecture references, and other objects relating to the domicile, international trade memes, and travel.

Mary Ann Strandell, "Breeze Way" Installation, 19' x 16', Acrylic Drawing with oil paintings and 3D Lenticular Media. 2021 UPSTATE WEEKEND #upstateweekend #artportkingston #maryannstrandell

UPSTATE WEEKEND

ARTPORT KINGSTON, 108 STRAND STREET, KINGSTON, NY 12401

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Tuesday, June 29, 2021

at Barns Crossing

East Hampton Group Exhibition

Curated by Suzanne Unrein

The Residence of Robert Kushner and Trevor Yoder

26 Bull Run, East Hampton, NY 11937

June 12 to October 30, 2021

By appointment only. Schedule a Private Viewing

with Suzanne Unrein _ suzanne@suzanneunrien.com

___Some interesting info about the house:

“Barns Crossing”
The house is situated on 3.9 acres in the Northwest woods, home to many in film, fine arts and fashion, who located there for privacy and creative inspiration. Among them was Minoru Niizuma, a stone sculptor and friend and contemporary of famed sculptor Noguchi, who built what is now the home’s renovated guest wing in the 1970’s, welcoming artists and friends like John Lenon and Yoko Ono. Mr. Niizuma’s enormous artist studio was on the exact footprint of what is now the main house, and he chose this property because of the peaceful nature of the woods and the sanctity of the site based on the huge 7-foot-high stone formation that sits just outside the property’s edge, called Jason’s Rock. Legend has it that the rock holds a pool of water in its crest even during the hottest days of summer, and was a source of nourishment for a Native American who drank from the rock on long journeys from town to town. The house is named Barns Crossing in honor of Jason’s legendary crossings.

Mary Ann Strandell,

Tiki Fox Red, 42’ x 30”,

3D Lenticular media

Mary Ann Strandell

“Red Wave”, 32” x 48”,

3D Lenticular Media

Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art

SUMMER INVITATIONAL

Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art

2004 Baltimore Ave.

Kansas City, MO 64108

Group Exhibition June 3 - August 21, 2021

Mary Ann Strandell, "Porcelain Flowers Blue"

Mary A Strandell, Porcleain Flowers Yellow

Anne Herrero, Annie Helmericks-Louder, Barbara Rogers,

Cathy Logan, Emily Sall, Jane Booth, John Ferry, John Louder,

Ky Anderson, Marcus Cain, Mary Ann Strandell,

Nicole McLaughlin, Norman Akers, Patty Carroll,

Rhonda Gates, Rosalyn Schwartz, Sun Smith-Foret,

Tom Huck, Tom Jones, Vera Mercer

Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art

2004 Baltimore Ave.

Kansas City, MO 64108

816.221.2626

Gallery Hours 11-5pm TUES-SAT

Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art

Mary Ann Strandell Statement +Bio

Statement:
Strandell’s works are a movable terrain between image, media and their myriad histories. Her ideas of perception and time explore the paradox of mediated images through painting, 3d lenticular, moving-image and installation. Using imagery of cultural memes, she bring into the minds-eye a query of location, placement and source. Drawn from the internet and her own photography, the works arc to include a mash of notable mid-century and modernist buildings, New York City construction sites, renditions of period rooms and porcelain objects from the ancient and contemporary trade routes. There is a constant process of visual translation in her work. From the site-made photo documenting oil paintings, to the 'staged for the archive’ internet image, or the casual note of found photography, these speculative transcriptions are set in motion. Her primary sources of traditional oil painting and drawings are often re-engineered from single planar views into the multivalent 3d lenticular media.

Bio:
Mary Ann Strandell is an artist living in the NYC area. Born in Watertown, SD, she graduated with a BFA in Fine Arts and Art History from the University of South Dakota, cum laude. She finished an MA in Studio Art, and an MFA in Painting and Printmaking from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. She also studied Psychology at Syracuse University, and Political Science in The Study Abroad Program, Great Britain/USD. She was awarded an Internship as a conservator of ethnology from the W. H. Over Museum, SD, and a Fellowship from Tamarind Institute, NM. Strandell has taught at Washington University in St. Louis, The Kansas City Art Institute, The NY Institute of Technology, Montclair State University, The University of Notre Dame/Taos Program, and The University of South Dakota. Strandell has been a visiting artist at MCAD in Minneapolis, a visiting printmaker at Future Arts Research, Tallahassee, FL, William Paterson University, NJ. She has lectured at SVA, Pratt Institute, San Francisco Art Institute, The Nelson Atkins Museum, and many other institutions.

She is the recipient of an individual National Endowment for Arts in Painting Arts Midwest, an Arts and Humanities Grant, and a Geraldine R. Dodge Fellowship Grant. Her residencies include Art Omi International, The Bemis Center For Contemporary Art, Byrdcliffe Woodstock, and The Menaul School (Albuquerque, NM). She has held solo exhibitions at Panorama Art (Cologne, DE); The Second Street Gallery (Charlottesville, VA); The North Dakota Museum of Art (Grand Forks, ND); Michael Steinberg Fine Arts (New York, NY); Deborah Colton Fine Arts (Houston, TX); Byron C. Cohen Gallery (Kansas City, MO); Elliot Smith Contemporary Art (St. Louis, MO); and Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art (Kansas CIty, MO). Her work has been included in numerous group exhibitions, including at De Weiger Museum (Deurne, Netherlands); FIAC (Paris, France); The Chelsea Art Museum, (New York, NY); Saint Louis Contemporary Art Museum (St. Louis, MO); Transfer Gallery, Minnesota Street Projects (San Francisco, CA); El Museo Cultural de Sante Fe (NM), Kinz and Tillou Fine Art (Brooklyn); Arena Gallery; and Lesley Heller Workspace; and Bitforms (NYC); Gateway Projects, (Newark, NJ), among others.

Selected public collections include the The Nelson Atkins Museum (Kansas City, MO); The Nerman Museum (Overland Park, KS); The DiRosa Foundation (Napa, CA); Fidelity Inc. (London, UK); The Albuquerque Museum (Albuquerque, NM); Hallmark Collection, Stowers Medical Reserach (Kansas City, MO); Polsinelli Law Firm (Kansas City, MO), and Federal Reserve Bank (Chicago, IL) Barnes Jewish Medical Center (St. Louis, MO), The Aldrich-Kemper Museum (St. Joseph, MO), Art in Public Places NM, (Las Cruces, NM), Brandies Investment (La Jolla, CA) and many others. Writing on her work has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Village Voice, Art Critical, Art Papers, Art Slant, The Kansas City Star, The Albuquerque Tribune, White Hot Magazine, and Artes Magazine NY.

In Spring, 2020 Strandell was commissioned for a site specific, twenty-two foot, 3D Lenticular Media Installation for the Children’s Mercy Research Institute (Kansas City, MO); to be completed in January, 2021. Other notable commissions include a thirty-four foot 3D Lenticular Media permanent Installation for the Polsinelli Law Firm, 2013 (Kansas City, MO), and 2016 (Los Angeles, CA)

Mary Ann Strandell's Upcoming 2020 Exhibitions include "The Conversation" Solo with Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, KC, MO (June_ Aug.) “Ripple Effect”, “ArtPort Kingston, NY: ‘The Arc Line" Solo at Juliette Yuan&Associates, NYC (August _ Oct); Artist in Residency at P98a, Berlin, Germany(post-poned); The Crossroads Hotel: Summer Solo "Prism Forest: Mary Ann Strandell" curated by Hesse McGraw, (TBA), KC, MO.

Some of Strandell's 2019 exhibitions include her solo, Rift Valley at APPG in Albuquerque, NM; Afflatus Exhibition, Gallery 5-50, NY, NY; PopUp, 55 Haus, NY; ArtsThrive, The Albuquerque Museum; Art Tech Week Conference NYC; Her solo exhibition, Constructions and Transmissions at Cliff Young Inc. NY; Strata at The Spiva Art Center, MO: and In Good Company at April Price Projects Gallery, NM. The De Weiger Museum Exhibition, MULTINATIONALS, Deurne, Netherlands was up till May 2018.

Her 2017 installation "For Baudelarie" at Sloace...Exhibition, Gallery 524, NYC, was reviewed in White Hot Magazine November, 2017, and presented in John Simon's blog, "Drawing Your Own Path", Episode 11 (2/2/18); Currents New Media 2017 at El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe presented Strandell's 16 foot 3D Lenticular Media, Bamboo Forest II, BLUE Exhibition at Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art exhibited work from Standell's "Orient Shift" series; Arts In Public Places New Mexico acquired Strandell's "Patterned Algorithmic Interior for NMSU Campus; Her solo Exhibition, The Meme Salon opened at April Price Projects Gallery, Albuquerque, NM, May 30, 2017.

Strandell was awarded two Artist in Residencies in 2017 at The International Menaul School, Albuquerque, NM, and Byrdcliffe Residency, Woodstock, NY. In 2016 Laurie De Chiara Projects NY/Berlin presented her 3D Lenticular work at Berlin Art Week 2016. In September 2016, her 3-channel video, Tromploi and Other Spatial Anxieties, which combines lenticular file formats into a GIF moving-image was part of Transfer DOWNLOADS, organized by Kelani Nichole, at Minnesota Street Projects, San Francisco. Her work was also exhibited in Raid Envy at Lichtundfire, NYC; Shaky Ground at Lesley Heller Workspace, NYC; Surface One at ARENA Gallery, New York, NY; and Embedded Landscape at April Price Projects Gallery, Albuquerque, NM.

Her 2015-16 solo exhibition, Parallax opened with Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, KC, MO. Parallax explores architecture and perception, with optical lenticular layers, and oil paintings. Her 2014 solo exhibition Re-Material, at The Second Street Gallery Art Center, Charlottesville, VA was curated by Tosha Grantham. It included groupings of oil paintings and various installations that combined polyglot lenticular media over a 56 foot sumi ink drawing, in situ. This work questioned language and the use of image, archive, ephemera, data storage, with the mediation of hand and computer-generated content.

Her public lecture, Lenticular Prints in a Hyperspace World, was held at The Nelson Atkins Museum Print Society, 2014. Recent exhibitions include, and/or at The Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis; In Good Company, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, reviewed by Elizabeth Kirsch in the KC Star; Delta Print was selected by master printer Ruth Lingen for The Bradley Gallery, Jonesboro, AK; Middlescapes at April Price Projects in Albuquerque, NM. In 2014, some exhibitions include: MAXIMAL/Minimal at Kinz + Tillou in Brooklyn, The Last Brucennial, NYC. Sixteen Sweet at Ivy Brown Gallery, NYC. Through the Looking Glass exhibition, was curated by Rebecca Jampol and Jasmine Wahi, at Gateway Projects, Newark Penn Station, NJ; Electric! at The Newman Museum in Overland Park, KS, and The Miniature Show at The Albuquerque Museum. Strandell's expansive installation of sumi ink with her polyglot lenticular prints was part of, All That Glitters, Newark Solo(s) Projects, curated by Athena Barat.

Current and Upcoming

2019

Creative Tech Week Conference, Video Streaming, NY, NY, May 10-16

Afflatus, Curated by Suzanne Unrein and Amy Hill, 5-50 Gallery, LIC, NY, May22-June

Constructions and Transmissions, February Reception, Cliff Young Ltd, NY, NY

The Highline Open Studio’s, Suite 303 Projects, NY, NY

PopUp, Group Exhibition, 55 Haus, NY, NY

Strata, Curated by Courtney Wasson, Spiva Arts Center, Joplin MO, January 12 - March 16

In Good Company, April Price Project Gallery, 201 Third Street, Suite J, Albuquerque, NM, December 8 - January 31, 2019

2018

EXIST, Curated by Rik Singley, One Art Space Tribeca, NY, NY December 15- January 15, 2019

IN GOOD COMPANY, April Price Project Gallery, Group Exhibition, 201 Third Street, Suite J, Albuquerque, NM, December 8 - January 31, 2019

Preview, Portico Gallery SoHo, Inc., Group Exhibition, 139 Spring Street, NY, NY. October 25 - December 31

Arts Thrive, The Albuquerque Museum, 2000 Mountain Rd NW, Albuquerque, NM October 20 - December 5

AIR Bemis Auction, The Bemis Center For Contemporary Art, Group Exhibition, Omaha NE, October 12 - 27

Constructions and Transmissions, Solo Exhibition, Curated by Leslie Zarra Young, Marichu Custodio and Jeff Oakes, Cliff Young Ltd, 200 Lexington Ave., #505, NYC, September 13 - February 15, 2019

In/Sight Exhibition, In conjunction with The KC Biennial 2018 Open Spaces, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, 2004 Baltimore St., Kansas City, MO. September 6- October 21, 2018

Jam Session: Musical Selections from the Permanent Collection of the Beach Museum of Art, May 15-August 25, 2018. The Beach Museum of Art, 14th St & Anderson Ave., Manhattan, KS 66506

Multinationals, De Wieger Museum, Deurne, The Netherlands, January 21 - May 13, 2018 Oude Liesselseweg 29, 5751 WN Deurne

Complete and Great, The Willa Cather Foundation, 413 North Webster Street | Red Cloud, NE

Published INTERVIEW 2/2/18 John F Simon's interview with Mary Ann Strandell, Podcast: Drawing Your Own Path, Episode 11. LINK:http://iclock.com/DYOPodcast/?name=2018-02-02_ep11-mary_ann_strandell.mp3

2017

-Other Terrain, April Price Project Gallery, Albuquerque, NM

-Currents New Media, El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, NM

-Holding It Together, Dumbo Arts Festival, Teri Hackett Studio, Brooklyn, NY

-Blue, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO

-Post Analogue, Luanem Gallery, Albuquerque, NM

-Dazzling, The Nerman Museum of Art, Overland Park, KS

-KCAI Biennial, Volker Sculpture Building, Kansas CIty, MO

-Arts in Public Places, NMSU, Las Cruces, NM, Rentfrow Building